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Old Woman Sleeping
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Is this a man or a woman? In the early 18th century the sitter was taken for a dozing man, but later it was thought to be a woman. Rembrandt here takes up the 17th-century genre of pious old women who have fallen asleep while reading the Bible, still holding their reading spectacles.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineOld Woman Sleeping. c. 1636. Rembrandt van Rijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
